Professor Trevor Buck
B.Com, MA, Liverpool
Professor of International BusinessCo-ordinator, International Business and Strategy Research GroupPublicationsT.W.Buck@lboro.ac.uk
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Professor Trevor Buck graduated from the University of Liverpool with two degrees, Bachelor of Commerce (first class, 1966) and Master of Arts (Economics, 1969). Before coming to Loughborough, he worked in industry and at the universities of Queen’s Belfast, Nottingham and Leicester De Montfort.
His main current research is international corporate governance and strategy. This embraces two main elements:
First, he led a major project on executive pay and firm performance that involved comparisons between the UK, USA and Germany. UK/US comparisons have attracted a large grant from the ESRC (£212,000, 2002-2006) and this work has already led to papers in the Economic Journal and Journal of Management Studies. Basically, they are trying to discover whether executives’ pay packages favour “fat cats” or enhance firm performance. For German comparisons, Trevor cooperates with Prof Stefan Winter at Wuerzburg University, with whom he won a grant from the Anglo-German Foundation.
Transition economies are a second focus of his work, and his current interest is in entrepreneurship, governance and HRM strategies in China, working with colleagues Prof. Xiaohui Liu and Dr. Ursula Ott. Externally, Trevor co-operates with Professors Mike Wright (Nottingham) and Igor Filatotchev (King’s College, London). Trevor's research on China has recently attracted funding from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and has led to two 2008 papers in the Journal of International Business Studies.
Trevor is currently an external examiner for PhDs at Warwick University, Copenhagen Business School, Nottingham University and King’s College London. He is also an external examiner for the MSc in International Business, Nottingham University Business School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Studies, and is Conference Secretary for the Academy of International Business UK.
His consultancy has involved work for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the EU, the OECD and the UN’s International Labour Office. He has taught at ESC Pau in France and in Tallin, Estonia. He has raised research grants from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the EU, The British Academy, the Anglo-German Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation and the UK government’s Department for International Development.
